March 21, 2020

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA), one of the small parties that make up APNU+AFC coalition has joined the many calls for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to undertake a national recount of the ballots cast at the March 2 general…

A 39-year-old driver of Non-Pariel, East Coast Demerara (ECD) is said to be in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he lost control of a fully-loaded cement truck on the Happy Acres Public Road on Saturday.
Police…

Statement on violence in the Mahaica-Berbice Region (No. 5)
By His Excellency David Granger
President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana
2020.03.21
Guyanese,
I am deeply concerned about reports of acts of civil violence…

Police are hunting the driver of a car who struck down and killed a pedestrian on the Aubrey Barker Road in the wee hours of Saturday and then escaped.
The News Room understands that the Police are still seeking to identify the body of…

- Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh has confirmed that there are 40 new cases of the novel coronavirus in Trinidad and Tobago, taking the overall national figure to 49 cases.
Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Deyalsingh…

By Akeem Greene
Like so many other things, sport has drawn to a standstill around the globe, owing to the coronavirus pandemic.
Here in Guyana, almost all the associations have suspended activities due to the threat of the virus,…

Officers at the Georgetown Prison on Camp Street managed to quickly extinguish a fire set by an inmate in the solitary division at around 16:50hrs Friday.
Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels in a press statement noted that the fire was…

In an effort to support the national response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) is donating approximately 12,000 litres of alcohol-based sanitizing cleaner.
DDL is distributing the sanitizing cleaner to…

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